Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Your payment processor may be an important element of your business. However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? If you’re searching for one of these platforms, what qualities are important to you? After all, it plays a big role in how you get paid.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. We’re experimenting with it, but we haven’t made a massive investment.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In the early days of running a software company, collecting payments was pretty straightforward. A customer buys a license for your software, and they get the product (either through a download, a CD or even more old school—floppy disks). Luckily, like most complex processes and tasks, it can be simplified.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2023

can invest in marketing that takes a little while to pay off). In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. It depends. They don’t.

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SaaStr

MARCH 29, 2021

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. Invest long here. And it has been since 2017 or so!

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before reading through yet another “Top-29 SaaS billing platforms” feature comparison post, decide how you want the billing tool to play with the rest of your operations stack. I recommend that a startup should consider three questions when choosing a SaaS billing platform: What is the specific billing logic the platform should provide?

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The contracts are identical twelve month contracts except for the payment terms. Contract B relaxes payment terms to monthly payment, 12 monthly installments for the next year. All of the sales and marketing dollars invested to obtain persuade the buyer to put digital ink to pdf have been recouped immediately.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2024

In this Mucker Growth Session, Debbie Rosler from Burkland dives into the fundamental financial best practices and infrastructure early -stage startups need to put in place. It's important for early stage startups to focus on finance from the very beginning. Having a PT bookkeeper is often how startups begin.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. One of the most fundamental changes any startup can go through is entering this market niche.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 28, 2024

By giving the MoR for SaaS authority over tasks like paying taxes, processing payments, and conversions of currencies, SaaS companies are able to concentrate on their core services, improve customer support, and spur innovation in their products. MoR-based solution: Tax compliance issues are taken care of by the MoR.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. is a software company that develops online SEO tools and free educational materials for marketing professionals. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Grab tickets here. Grab tickets here. Ahrefs Pte. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2024

Adding another $5m, $10m, heck sometimes $50m into a startup via SAFEs to either punt on valuation issues or to extent runway can seem like a simple solution. For example, if you’re basically break-even and have millions or more in ARR, some debt can help you invest a smidge more. SAFEs Aren’t “Free” Money.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 23, 2024

CRM software helps sales and service teams to satisfy and retain customers easily. In this article, we’ll discuss and compare these CRM solutions. What is customer relationship management (CRM) software? What is customer relationship management (CRM) software? How to choose the right CRM software for your business?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Identifying a direction is just the starting point.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Sometimes it can take as long as seven years before you can sell your business and hop on the next idea. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? The solution? Micro startup acquisitions.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Startups often begin with a bootstrapping phase with little to no outside investment. Many, however, will eventually switch to the externally funded phase because bootstrapping isn’t for every business. Some startups need constant cash infusions to achieve growth. This is where SaaS companies generate most their revenue.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With that being said, if you have the world’s best payroll app, you can absolutely still talk to Craft. Sacks suggests thinking of every major platform shift as a pond. Co-pilots — Co-pilots are where startups and founders can do new things that big companies won’t go after. Sacks calls it a software recession.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. RD Station. CEO : Tiago Dalvi.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In that essay , we also talked about how a more common route for a SaaS business is to become a platform. Platforms can create an immense amount of long-term value for companies, or be a minor component of their product strategy to maintain product/market fit. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the modern business landscape, compliance is not just a buzzword but a fundamental requirement, essential for evaluating a startup’s capability to offer risk-free, reliable, and trustworthy services. Here’s why businesses (especially startups) must prioritize it from day one. But there’s a catch.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

In this article, we’ll compare two popular subscription billing systems, Stripe vs. Recurly. We'll also discuss how Baremetrics can help enhance your SaaS business. Both Recurly and Stripe are capable of doing so and integrate well with Baremetrics to get better analytics on the data you get through these two payment platforms.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Much like Amazon, when Shopify first began, it was a simple shop and not the ecommerce platform we know today. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. What is CAC for Shopify Partner Apps? What is CAC for Shopify Partner Apps?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” The recurring revenue (subscription) model is usually “opposed” to the transactional or pay-as-you-go model.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. Today we’re going to be talking about a really interesting topic, I think, what brands look for when considering acquiring software companies.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 6, 2021

ProfitWell is a cloud-based app that generates real-time financial and subscription metrics for data-driven SaaS enterprises. The recurring revenue growth platform provides users with valuable insights into subscription funnels and one-click analytics for Stripe. But ProfitWell does not benefit all SaaS companies.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

When discussing the financial metrics for a SaaS company, revenue vs. profit is among the most common comparisons encountered. When a SaaS product or service has been developed, tracking the ROI (return on investment) involves always keeping revenue vs. profit at the top of mind. What is revenue? What is revenue?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 121

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Also, if the crypto company sells software/services to other crypto companies and receives payment in tokens, the token revenue generated from that relationship resides in the treasury. Some structures discount the investors' allocation by a negotiated percentage: e.g., 66% warrant coverage per equity dollar invested.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Cash flow modelling software lets you use historical data from a time period to develop a forecast of your incoming cash from revenue. For SaaS businesses, you use your contraction monthly recurring revenue (MRR) , churn, and average revenue per customer in addition to other transaction data to predict your future cash flow.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 8, 2022

Facebook and Slack used to be the best community platforms for online businesses: they are free, everyone is using them, and they are easy to use. However, new online community platforms emerged to offer better interface, more customization opportunities, and the chance to create your own mini social network.

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